Supporting Terminality: Meeting Medicare's Hospice Eligibility Guidelines

Hospice documentation must be very descriptive to support the terminal diagnosis and terminality throughout the hospice course of care. This requires nurses and hospice teams to look at patient improvement and decline from visit to visit. Some items require frequent documentation such as mid-arm circumference (MAC)/weight, wound characteristics, cognition, ADLs, and self-care.

This webinar will address the hospice specifics and focus areas that should be addressed in documentation to support terminality and hospice eligibility. It will review chronic versus terminal status, standardized tools, congruent documentation, key focus areas (per the LCD guidelines), and hospice eligibility. In addition, it will break down the challenged documentation areas and how to avoid those challenges. This will be a very focused webinar, excellent for nursing staff, leadership, QA personnel, and any new clinicians.

This informative session is designed for all team members who document in the hospice clinical chart with a special focus on nursing (admission, case managers, LPN/LVN, staff RNs), medical directors, and the IDT. It is recommended that all agency leadership attend.